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The U.S. House could vote to codify an official and widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism as early as Wednesday, but some Democratic lawmakers are objecting. They prefer a far narrower definition crafted by progressive critics of Israel.

Good Wednesday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on Marc Rowan’s views on post-Oct. 7 philanthropy and campus antisemitism and a new initiative by the Jewish Braille Institute to get accessible Passover Haggadot to anyone who needs one, as well a newly...

Good Thursday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on the final sale of American Jewish University’s Familian Campus in Los Angeles to the Milken Community School and a new push by Jewish groups to get Congress to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism. We...

The brutal shedding of Jewish blood on Oct. 7, followed by Israel’s relentless military assault on Gaza, has brought a fraught question to the fore in a moment of surging bigotry and domestic political gamesmanship: Is anti-Zionism by definition antisemitism? The question has deeply divided congressional Democrats when Republican leaders, seeking to drive a wedge between American Jews and the political party that three-quarters of them call their own, put it to a vote in the House.

The latest attack has centered around the appointment of Harvard professor Derek Penslar as co-chair in a task force at the university investigating allegations of antisemitism on campus.

At the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a subsidiary of the International Workers Order. A workers’ group with Communist leanings, it was too far left and too political to exist within the fold anymore.The Jewish establishment did not only send this organization into exile. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, as senators investigated Hollywood’s role in promoting Sovi...

The Harvard Crimson has "whitewashed antisemitism" and abetted harassment of Jewish students, Jewish leaders warn.

Before Invoking Antisemitism, We Need To Define It | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

New York Times reporter and controversialist Jonathan Weisman made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with

Because Zionism requires a Jewish state, the people who lived in those occupied territories could not be treated as citizens. Maintaining Israel’s veneer of democracy requires the political fiction that these undesirables are not part of the country that rules them, but instead belong to non-sovereign entities—like the Palestinian National Authority and the Gaza Strip—whose raison…